On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins <erichiggins@gmail.com> was heard to say: > Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade: > > # apt-get -fm install dpkg > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Suggested packages: > lzma > The following packages will be upgraded: > dpkg > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/2039kB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack): > files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename Do you see anything unusual in the file list for coreutils? (i.e., /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list) For instance, are there empty lines? Does it look obviously corrupted? I would try "fixing" the problems that stop dpkg from processing the files list, then downloading the .deb for the *exact version* you have installed, and running "dpkg --install" on it to make sure the list is correct. NB: make sure it doesn't have anything that belongs to another package first! I've attached the files list for coreutils on my computer for comparison. Daniel
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